Hernial truss.



G. R. HOUSE.

HERNIAL TRUSS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7. 1915.

1,222,763. Patented Apr. 17, 1917.

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rarnnr onnrcn GEORGE 3. HOUSE, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

HERNIAL TRUSS.

Application fi1ed June 7, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. Housn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Hernial Truss, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to hernial trusses, and the objects of my invention are First: To provide a cheap and durable elastic pad bearing-member which will press on the body outwardly of the hernia.

Second: To provide a non-elastic padmember on the inner side of the pad bearing-member, the convex face of which will press on the hernia and form with the pad bearing-member a bridge over the hernial ring, and,

Third: To provide a simple clamping member at the apex of the pad bearingmembers for attaching the truss pad to the body band.

I attain these objects by means of the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective View of a hernial truss constructed according to my invention,

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the truss pad from the inner side,

Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the truss pad showing the clamping-member in operative position,

Fig. 4: is a detail of the inner portion of the clamping-member showing the screwsocket and the stud therein, and

Fig. 5 is a detail of the outer portion of the clamping-member showing the bifurcated screw-plug for engaging the body band wire.

Similar numerals of reference refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The numeral 1, is a pad-bearing-Inember which is made of spring wire, preferably iron, which is coiled upwardly in inwardly receding convolutions to form a bell-shaped elastic frame. A non-elastic pad-member 2, having a concavo-convex formation and preferably made of thin metal is secured by its peripheral edge on the inner side of the pad-bearing-member by solder or other suitable means, so that the conveX face thereof shall be positioned inwardly adjacent the peripheral edge of the pad-bearing-member,

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented Apr. 1'7, JLQJW.

Serial No. 32,577.

the convex face of the pad-member thus is made to form with the adjacent concave inner side of the pad-bearingmember an annular extending arch 3, adapted to bridge the hernial ring or margin.

At the apex of the pad-bearing-1nen1ber l, a binding post l, is secured on the inner end portion of the coiled wire, and comprises a stem 5, having a screw-socket 6, at its outer end provided centrally within with a longitudinally extending stud 7, which is extended a distance outwardly of the screw-socket and a screw-plug 8, hzwing a longitudinally extending slot at its inner end adapted to engage a wire link 10, on a. body band 11, and also engage the stud 7, to hold the truss-pad in place in operative position. Although I preferably show the stem 5, at tached to the pad-bearing-mernber it is un derstood that the stem may extend downward and attached to the upper side of the pad-member without departing from my invention or the scope of the appended claim.

To apply the hernial-truss to a rupture the truss is positioned so that the pad-member will bear directly upon the hernia and the perpiheral edge of the pad-bearing-memher will bear upon the adjacent portion of the body. The link 10, on the body-band 11 is then entered in the slot 9 in the screwplug 8, and the latter is screwed into the screw-socket 6, until the wire link is brought to bear on the stud v7. The body-band 11 is then tightened and a pressure thereby e:-: erted on the truss to hold the same in operative position.

The peculiar advantage of the hernialtruss constructed as I have shown and described is the provision of means for preventing protrusion by a pressure applied directly to the hernia at the rupture, and a pressure simultaneously applied to the body adjacent the hernia. The pressure applied directly and indirectly to the hernia, as above mentioned, operates to prevent protrusion at the point of rupture notwithstanding the pressure of the pad, as is frequently the case where the pressure is limited to the pad alone, the pressure of the elastic pad-bearing member outwardly of the hernia or rupture combined with the pressure of the pad directly upon the hernia operates to prevent protrusion in any circumstances, and the bridge over the hernial ring or margin permits the free circulation of blood in and about the rupture to encourage natures healing processes.

Having described my invention, What I claim is:

A hernial truss consisting of a spring wire coiled upwardly in inwardly receding convolutions to form a yielding and reversible frame and provided with a convex disk sup- Copies of this patent may be obtained for GEORGE E. HOUSE.

lVitnesses BERTHA GEARY, IIARRISON WEANT.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

